Decorative material and wall-covering.



PATENTED OCT. 10, 1905. E. G. BAEOK & R. R. BERTELLI. DECORATIVE MATERIAL AND WALL COVERING. A TION r L DE 4.

O QQ O V 0o: 0 006 09 r UNITED sfrarnsrarnuir orricn- EUGENE BAEOK AND RICCARDO R. BERTELLT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DECORATIVE MATERIAL AND WALL-COVERING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1905.

Application filed December 16,1904. Serial No. 237,077.

in the borough of Manhattan, county of New 1 York, city and State of New York, citizens of the United States, have invented an Improvement in Decorative Materials and lVall-Coverings, of which the following is a specification.

Decorative materials and wall-coverings as at present manufactured are both plain and figured. The colors of both of said materials are applied by means of rollers. The designs of the figured or ornamental materials are applied by pattern-rollers of about eighteen to twenty-four inches in circumference. Hence the design applied in colors is in repeating sections or multiplying figures that correspond and substantially match. and in figured wall-covering as hereinbefore employed each strip as applied to a side wall or ceiling had upon its surface a design in repeated sections, which in each strip applied must be matched along the meeting edge with the preceding strip to make a perfect continuity of the figure.

heretofore made cannot be employed in imitation of hand-made decorations wherein continuous designs are employed.

Our invention is a new article of manufactnre; and it consists of a figured decorative For these reasons the wall-coverings The design of unitary character and a predetermined length includes a major design a at the lower part, a design for a frieze or border Z1 at the upper part, connecting designs 0, and (Z represents an intermediate space between the designs (l and b with an indistinct background, said strip being of predetermined length and adapted to extend from the base or dado to the ceiling.

lVe have only illustrated one form of design; but it is evident that the design may be modified so as to be wholly or partially continuous or that they may be spaces of plain color in the design between the major design at one end and a frieze design at the other end; also, that the strips may first be printed with a fine, delicate, or indistinct background.

The wall-covering strips are adapted to be cut in lengths of six, eight, ten, or twelve feet adapted to match from the base or from a dado to the frieze or ceiling, and we prefer at each edge to have a short space of plain color to allow for trimming, and we further prefer that the respective edges should be made as usual of a width of paper slightly greater than the pattern proper, so as to provide for trimming to a definite line.

In an application for Letters Patent of even date herewith, December 16, 1904, Se-

rial No. 237,078, we have described'and f shown a design-pattern roller and diagrammaterial or wall-covering of predetermined or customary width and in predermined continuous unitary design lengths suitable especially for the side walls of a room or apartment and to extend from the base or dado to a border or frieze or to the ceiling.

By the expression predetermined continu- 1 sign is unbroken and harmonious and of progressive continuity, as the design of a tapestry or painting in contradistinction to a design of progressive repetition or many correspending portions, or, in other words, one

design from the beginning to the end of the 1 figure and that regardless of the length of the figure.

In the drawing we have represented by an elevation a strip of paper of continuous unitary design length.

matic machine in which the same is employed for printing and impressing the figured decorative material or wall-covering strips herein set forth.

\Ve claim as our invention- 1. As a new article of manufacture, decorative covering material of suitable and desired width and in predetermined lengths. each length of a unitary design or pattern of progressive continuity.

2. As a new article of manufacture, decorative covering material of suitable and desired width and in lengths of continuous unitary design or pattern throughout for a given or predetermined length of surface to be covered.

3. As anew article of manufacture, wallcovering of customary width and in predetermined lengths, of a unitary continuous design or pattern suitable to the vertical height of the wall of a room from the base to the ceiling or border.

a. As a new article of manufacture, wallcovering of customary Width andhaving on Wall of a room or apartment from the base or 10 the surface thereof a unitary continuous dedado t0 the ceillng or frieze.

sign or pattern suitable to the vertical height Signed by us this 25th day cf November, of the side Wall of an apartment to be cov- L 1904.

5 ered. EUGENE O. BAECK.

5. As a new article of manufacture, Wall- RICCARDO R. BERTELLI. covering in predetermined severable lengths, W'itnesses: each length being complete in itself in design GEO. T. PINOKNEY,

and suitable to the vertical height of the side BERTHA M. ALLEN. 

